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SYPN: Symposium Patterns in Nature: Origins, Universality, Functions

SYPN 1: Patterns in Nature: Origins, Universality, Functions

Monday, April 1, 2019, 15:00–17:45, H1

Pattern formation and self-organization in nature fascinates both the layman and reseachers from many disciplines. Each type of self-organized pattern may occur in many different systems, but the fascinating driving mechanisms of self-organized (mostly dissipative) pattern can be as diverse as the systems in which they occur (origins). This raises among others the question about fundamental and common universal properties of patterns shared by different systems - from small cells and the collective behavior of active colloidal particles up to ecological or fluid dynamical (geological) scales? Which functions play universal nonlinear properties of patterns in nature? Are there common strategies for controlling spatio-termporal patterns?

	15:00	SYPN 1.1	Invited Talk: Engineering spatial-temporal organization of bacterial suspensions — •Igor Aronson
	15:30	SYPN 1.2	Invited Talk: Collective behaviour and pattern formation in phoretic active matter — •Ramin Golestanian
	16:00	SYPN 1.3	Invited Talk: Control and selection of spatio-temporal patterns in complex systems — •Svetlana Gurevich
	16:30		15 min. break
	16:45	SYPN 1.4	Invited Talk: Self-organization of Active Surfaces — •Frank Jülicher
	17:15	SYPN 1.5	Invited Talk: Front instabilities can reverse desertification — •Ehud Meron, Cristian Fernandez-Oto, and Omer Tzuk